The Witherspoon-Princeton Controversy

https://www.christianpost.com/voices/should-john-witherspoons-statue-remain-at-princeton.html

The Capitalist decadence masquerading as Cultural Revolution is now targeting the statue of John Witherspoon at Princeton University. Witherspoon was a pivotal figure in the school's history and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a slaveholder, the activists of the hour want his statue (or monument) removed and his legacy tarred.

Rather than tear down the statue, those who find him offensive and wish to undo his legacy should leave it right where it is and remember both him and his legacy – even in all of its ugliness and blood-soaked error.

If they really want to undo the legacy of Witherspoon, then in reality you must bulldoze not just his statue but the entire university as he effectively represents what Princeton is – at its core.

These protestors and students are blind and need to understand not who or what Witherspoon was but what Princeton is and what the Ivy League as a whole represents – and always has. If it offends them (and I certainly understand why it would), then don't go there. And this is where the activists' rotten thinking and hypocrisy comes to the surface.

You see they want the benefits and the prestige of an Ivy League education and diploma – but only on their terms. This is delusional for what they're doing is seeking access and standing in a system – but it's not a moral system, it's one that (even to this day) is built upon suffering, theft, exploitation, and yea, the graves of the poor and used underclass the world over.

Don't go to a place like Princeton and pretend that it's something other than what it is or engage in self-deception thinking that removing a statue makes an institution like Princeton something other than what it has always been – an arm and portal of the American Imperial Establishment. They don't really want to purge the evil. They want in on it – they just want to feel good about their selling out and acquiescence.

In New Testament terms, Witherspoon was a heretic who substituted the authority of the Bible for rationalist epistemology, and Enlightenment ideology. A theologian of the sword and coin, he helped to cultivate rebellion and his efforts would mould and shape Princeton – a seat of power and mammon, a place in which future Mandarins and Praetorians could be formed, indoctrinated, and enticed into the service of the American Babel. In Biblical terms, Witherspoon was not a Christian man. He was at best a Presbyterian building a pseudo-Zion. Princeton was not and is not a Christian institution, but an arm of the Babylonian system.

He preached rebellion and thus in Biblical terms brought judgment on himself. He sanctified sin and vigilante bloodshed, and hypocritically played a role in intimidating and threatening those who refused to join the rebel movement and participate in its murder. He signed and promoted the false and un-Christian ideologies promoted in documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the rag that is the US Constitution. He may have been a 'great' American – but he was no friend to the Kingdom of Christ. When judged by its standard he was a murderous traitor and enemy.

Let them have their statue and the Babel it represents. Witherspoon typifies the syncretism such compromises produce – the Tower of Babel with a cross set on top and nothing more.

Leave the statue, respect those who reject it and reject all that Princeton is. Those who attach themselves to the system and seek to flourish in it - don't complain. Like it or not you're standing on the shoulders of Witherspoon, Woodrow Wilson, and many others. Their values are not as different from your own as you might think.

As to be expected, Stonestreet completely misses the point and reads and interprets the situation through the syncretist lens of Dominionism. His commentary is essentially worthless.

See also:

https://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2017/06/princeton-seminary-twenty-years-of.html